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Students recruited via Telegram, amateur saboteurs and hitmen: How Russia outsources its operations in Europe

On the night of March 20, 2024, unusually humid and mild in London, three people in their twenties pulled up at an industrial estate in the east of the city in a cherry-red Kia Picanto. They went inside, set fire to a warehouse, and filmed the blaze on a cellphone. The video of the flames consuming the premises ended up in the hands of another 20-year-old, Dylan Earl, who was reached via the Telegram messaging app by the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner, linked to the Kremlin, which had in turn recruited others to do the dirty work. One of the burned units contained humanitarian aid and Starlink satellite equipment destined for Ukraine. According to the British investigation, the three young men who lit the fuse did not know they were actually working for Russia.

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German police on August 5 after the failed attack on Leipzig airport.
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Police arrest 39 suspected of €150 million tax fraud in mega EU operation

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Yesterday’s mega police operation throughout Portugal concluded with the arrest of 39 people in Portugal , accused of defrauding the State of more than €150 million in an alleged VAT

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